This prominent Melbourne boofhead finally tastes some consequences for his actions

There's a prominent boofhead down in Melbourne whose name we really don't need to hear anymore and who, like many of his kind, seemed forever impervious to the consequences anyone else would face should we behave as did he.

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," another prominent and suddenly less relevant boofhead once boasted. He was untouchable.

Given the fact the local boofhead was the head of the Collingwood football club, whose one-eyed fanatical fans outnumber any other in Melbourne, and place loyalty above any other standards of behaviour, he enjoyed a kind of untouchability.

He was everywhere - television shows, radio, business, football. He achieved first-name-only notoriety like Lleyton, Kylie and Barnaby. But enough is enough: we'll just refer to him as "boofhead".

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When he called renowned Age football writer Caroline Wilson a "black widow" who should take an ice bath and he would pay if she drowned, he got away with it.

He suggested indigenous footy champion Adam Goodes could help promote the new King Kong film - soon after Goodes, on-field, had called out a Collingwood barracker who had abused him as an "ape". The boofhead blamed tiredness, kept his job.

He mocked double amputee Cynthia Banham, who was the guest at an AFL pre-game coin toss, saying she be fined for not tossing the coin well enough; he played on.

He giggled along as host while passionate bigot Sam Newman appeared on the Footy Show in blackface, mocking Aboriginal player Nicky Winmar who did not turn up for a scheduled appearance on the show.

While commentating the Winter Olympics he said male ice skating costumes were "a bit Brokeback" and "didn't leave anything in the closet".

When head of Channel Nine, he allegedly discussed "boning" presenter Jessica Rowe (bone being a vulgar term for sack, from the fact someone gets screwed). The boofhead claimed he said "burn" not "bone", and called her husband to apologise.

Even the NSW Upper House passed a motion labelling him a "boofhead".

Perhaps the untouchability was why Victoria's premier Daniel Andrews defended the boofhead this week, despite him saying the leak of a report which found "systemic" racism at Collingwood was a "proud day" for the club. Power gets people a bit silly sometimes, doesn't it?

Or why The Age's national affairs editor drummed up a hilarious column saying Federal Labor should draft the boofhead in as leader, like some modern Bob Hawke, sourced from sport and media instead of the union movement.

After being dragged kicking and screaming to finally resign, to take some responsibility for Collingwood's history of racism, those political dreams have to be over now, don't they?

Perhaps not. Careful assuming politics is off the menu just because a boofhead would be held responsible for saying things that are a bit off.

Our leaders have shown us well - using a sports grants program to fund favourable seats, having a secret politician boyfriend who got into trouble at ICAC and never declaring your interest despite funding his pet project from which he would later seek a commission, joking about Pacific nations going underwater, campaigning for traditional marriage then leaving your wife for an employee, attacking the Sydney Lord Mayor with a forged document about air travel, or funnelling $150 million meant for women's sport into building pools in your own marginal electorates.

Maybe the boofhead knows already: the best way to get away with a scandal which would sink anybody else's career, is to be a politician.

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